News
In the News
February 9, 2024
AZ Mirror, Leah Britton
January 31, 2024
Extreme heat watch: Will cities be ready for summer 2024?
Smart Cities Dive, Ysabelle Kempe
January 19, 2024
How Phoenix is preparing for its next brutally hot summer.
Yale Climate Connections, Osha Davidson
November 22, 2024
Extreme heat led to a Taylor Swift fan's death in Brazil. Could it have been prevented?
Grist.org, Akielly Huy
October 26, 2023
Taking the heat off Valley Parking lots
ASU News, Dolores Tropiano
October 5, 2023
How to build a heat-resilient city
Grist.org, Jake Bittle & Naveena Sadasivam
September 27, 2023
Heat governance scholar Ladd Keith's collaboration with NOAA
NOAA Climate.gov, John Dos Passos Coggin, Melissa DeFrancesco, Gillen Curren, & Amber Liggett
September 19, 2023
Portion of Phoenix's Desert Ridge Marketplace gets cool pavement treatment
KTAR News, Suelen Rivera, KTAR.com
September 19, 2023
Vestar and ASU launch 'cool pavement project' at Desert Ridge Marketplace
AZ Big Meda, Vestar PR, www.vestar.com
September 19, 2023
Vestar Wants Shoppers to Stay Cool
US Real Estate News, Mike Boyd, US Real Estate News
August 23, 2023
‘Shocking’ Temps Don’t Tell the Whole Story of Extreme Heat
The Good Men Project, Kyle Mittan, UArizona
August 9, 2023
Tackling extreme heat isn't a summertime job - it's a year-round effort
SmartCities World, Luke Antoniou
July 31, 2023
As Arizona builds to solve a housing crisis, will its homes withstand future heat extremes?
Arizona Republic, Joan Meiners
July 28, 2023
Phoenix’s Rapid Growth Magnified Its Vulnerability to Heat
Bloomberg CityLab, Linda Poon
July 27, 2023
Biden looks to provide relief from extreme heat as record high temperatures persist across the US
Associate Press, Drew Costley, Joseph B. Frederick, and Tassanee Vejpongsa
July 26, 2023
These thermal images show how Phoenix uses technology to keep cool
Washington Post, Allyson Chiu, Erin Patrick O'Connor and John Farrell
July 26, 2023
How cities are battling extreme heat, and why record-breaking temps don't tell the whole story
UArizona Communications, Kyle Mittan
July 26, 2023
This Sweaty Robot Can Teach Us How to Survive Extreme Heat
Singularity Hub, Vanessa Bates-Ramirez
June 30, 2023
UA Workshop Deepens Local Educators’ Knowledge of the Impact of Climate Change in Arizona
AZPM News, Katya Mendoza
May 19, 2023
UArizona Experts Available to Discuss Extreme Heat
University of Arizona Press Release
On Broadcast Media
Interview with Dr. Ladd Keith, UA and Dr. Enrique Vivoni, ASU
Ten Across Conversations: Local Experts Answer: Why Are People Still Moving to Phoenix?
Dr. Ladd Keith, UA and Dr. Sara Meerow, ASU contribution to Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center's Heat Action Platform at One Billion People More Resilient.
Conduct a Baseline Heat Risk Assessment
Interview with Dr. Ladd Keith, UA and Dr. Leslie Tolbert, UA
Arizona Public Media, Episode 357: Investigating methods of heat management in Arizona
Interview with Drs. Jennifer Vanos and Ariane Middel, ASU
Interview with Dr. David Hondula, City of Phoenix/ASU
The New York Times Daily Podcast: The Man Trying to Save Phoenix From Historic Heat
Interview with Dr. Ladd Keith, UA
BBC News Broadcast, Jul 19, 2023: Extreme Heat Around the World
Interview with Dr. Patricia Solis, ASU
In Publications
Georgescu, M., Broadbent, A.M. & Krayenhoff, E.S. Quantifying the decrease in heat exposure through adaptation and mitigation in twenty-first-century US cities. Nature Cities 1, 42–50 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-023-00001-9
Moustaoui, M., Barclay, B.M., & Kostelich, E.J. Semi-Implicit Computation of Fast Modes in a Scheme Integrating Slow Modes by a Leapfrog Method Based on a Selective Implicit Time Filter, Monthly Weather Review , Volume 151: Issue 12 (Dec. 2023). https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-22-0311.1
Mark Kear, Margaret O. Wilder, Karina G. Martinez-Molina, Laura McCann, Dugan Meyer. Home thermal security, energy equity and the social production of heat in manufactured housing, Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 106 (Dec. 2023) 103318, ISSN 2214-6296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103318
Meerow, Sara, Ladd Keith, Malini Roy, Shaylynn Trego, Erika Schmidt, Jack Haskins, and Bryan Leyba, and Lindsey Jordan. (Oct. 2023). Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience: City of Tempe, AZ. Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL) – Arizona State University and University of Arizona. https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/670109
Trego, Shaylynn, Sara Meerow, Ladd Keith, Erika Schmidt, Bryan Leyba, and Lindsey Jordan. (Oct. 2023). Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience: City of Phoenix, AZ. Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL) – Arizona State University and University of Arizona. https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/670044
Keith, Ladd, Sara Meerow, Malini Roy, Shaylynn Trego, Erika Schmidt, Jack Haskins, and Bryan Leyba. (Oct. 2023). Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience: City of Tucson, AZ. Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL) – Arizona State University and University of Arizona. https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/669877
Lobo, J., Aggarwal, R.M., Alberti, M. et al. Integration of urban science and urban climate adaptation research: opportunities to advance climate action. npj Urban Sustain 3, 32 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-023-00113-0
Anand, J, Sailor, D.J. How can we combine urban cooling strategies to effectively cool cities over the entire diurnal cycle? Building and Environment, Volume 242 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110524
SW-IFL Annual Reports
SW-IFL Newsletters
Interested in signing up for our quarterly updates?
Want to catch up? You can check out our previous newsletters below:
January 2024 SW-IFL Newsletter